True, however, if you have an "x"% chance of dying (other than through old age, because then obviously then the chance would be 100%) just from being alive, then if you smoke you surely have "x+y"%, where y > 0, chance of death? So you are less likely to die if you do not smoke.

Been to a pub recently in the UK ? Been driven out ? made to be feel like you are a second class citizen ?
They have banned smoking in Lincs in car parks. What is the next step to ban it everywhere ?
The drinking of alcohol will be next. The government as already started it's propoganda, instructing women not to drink during pregnency.

Remember how health warnings on cigs appeared, saying smoke these you will die ? well it's slowly creeping on the alcohol bottles too. We are a slippery slope to prohibition. Started by the zealots and suported by all the branches and levels of cowardly government as always bowing to the loudest voices of the puritans..

But tabacco and alcohol is just the start. These "loud voices" are almost certainly "animal lovers" and veggies. next will be the demand that restaurants, bars and pubs provide a "meat free" eating area. So the Herbies don't have to watch us carnies tucking into are steak.